The vast white smoke almost covered the entire defender position, and the devil soldiers wearing gas masks were like groups of bulls, ghosts, snakes and gods who came out of hell, taking evil steps and attacking the position of the 28th regiment.

Zeng Jing took the two battalion commanders, and when the poisonous smoke had just spread on the position, he ran out of the command post behind, and he tied a warm cotton towel to his face, although he still had a little cough, but at least it was able to prevent most of the poisonous smoke from eroding their bodies.

The reason why he wanted to go to the position in person was because Zeng Jing knew that the devils would definitely take advantage of the poisonous smoke to launch a large-scale attack, and if they couldn't stop this wave of attacks, they would do the same and attack Hengyang City all the way.

Whether it was to keep Hengyang City, or to keep the gold-lettered signboard of the "Taishan Army", or to save the lives and establishment of the brothers of the 28th Regiment, Zeng Jingjing had to withstand this attack.

The three of them kept screaming, ordering, and pushing the soldiers back to their positions, even if they opened their mouths, they could feel the spicy taste digging deep into their throats, and they didn't stop shouting, although they could clearly feel that they were being invaded by poisonous gas, but for the sake of the position, they still kept echoing the soldiers of the two battalions on the position in place.

Thanks to Zeng Jing and the two battalion commanders who went to the position in time, they did not let the devil's conspiracy succeed, and as soon as all kinds of firepower were fired, the attacking Japanese army immediately paid the price, and the gas mask with a somewhat hideous feeling on his face could resist the invasion of poisonous smoke, but it could not stop the bullets and grenades of the Chinese army. Under the blow of the Chinese defenders' cluster grenades and heavy machine guns, the completely unprepared devil soldiers threw down their corpses and fled back in panic, and most of the devil soldiers who participated in the attack died in the thick fog and poisonous smoke without firing even a single shot.

In the face of the attack of the devil's gas bombs, although the 28th regiment held the position, but the position of the 54th division was still broken through, although Rao Shaohui was the division commander, but there was only one regiment in his hands, he could not throw all his family on the position, although he was prepared to prevent poison gas bombs, the devil's wave of artillery fire and poison gas attack did not cause a fatal blow to his troops, but he faced this overwhelming white fog and poisonous smoke, he still wavered, and ordered his troops to withdraw from their defensive positions, Retreat to Hengyang City.

When Rao Shaohui led his troops through the 115th Regiment and the 116th Regiment of the 58th Brigade of the 20th Division, which were cut into a cliff, to the position of the Jiangxi Guild Hall, he was so ashamed that he didn't even raise his head.

Zhang Xiaohu did not ridicule Rao Shaohui, because he is also a division commander, he is also a general with troops, he knows that the 54th Division has done its best, when people arrive in Hengyang, there is only one regiment left, you can't ask people to put all their family resources into it, he Zhang Xiaohu will not do this kind of thing, and he can't do it. So even at the risk of shelling, he still came out to greet and comfort Rao Shaohui in person: "Senior Commander Rao, you should rest and rest first, and watch us avenge the brothers of the 54th Division." ”

Zhang Xiaohu's unexpected actions and words made Rao Shaohui burst into tears with excitement, if it weren't for Zhang Xiaohu's quick eyes, he would almost kneel in front of him.

"Master Rao, if you do this kind of action again, it will really be a slap in the face of your brother." Zhang Xiaohu really gave people enough face, and his words were very sincere.

"Rao is ashamed, the general of the defeated army is so well treated by Commander Zhang, it is really deserved, if one day, when Rao has the ability to repay him, Commander Zhang's benevolence today will be rewarded."

After seeing off Rao Shaohui, Zhang Xiaohu returned to his command post, picked up the binoculars, and paid attention to the main position on the front line of the 115th and 116th regiments.

Maybe God has mercy on the Chinese soldiers struggling in the poisonous smoke, or maybe God is angry at the devil's use of poison gas bombs that have lost their conscience, and the sky where the sun was shining suddenly came over with dark clouds, and the originally hot and windless Hengyang City suddenly blew a gust of southwest wind at this time, and it was only a short time to blow away the strict white smoke shrouded in the defenders' position. After a short while, raindrops the size of soybeans fell densely from the sky.

It was really a rainy hour, and if it was an hour or two late, it was estimated that even the defenders who had done simple protection would probably not be able to hold on in the thick poisonous smoke.

Iwanaga Wang was very annoyed, and spent nearly half of the "special ammunition", and only captured a position of the defenders of Hengyang, and it was given up by the Chinese army on its own initiative, and the other attacking troops were damaged to varying degrees, which was still within the range of his acceptability, but this sudden shower and southwest wind not only blew the poisonous gas away, but also washed away the remaining poison, which was equivalent to him paying a lot of price, in exchange for only an abandoned defender's position, and no key position was broken through. How did he not get angry.

The attacking troops at the front called in to inquire and waited for his orders, although the captains of the brigades, the captains of the wings, and even the brigade commanders did not clearly ask for a temporary retreat and stop the offensive, but anyone could see that if they fought again at this time, except for the soldiers who threw in batches, nothing else could be imagined.

Even the staff officers in the headquarters thought that the division commander would give an order to suspend the offensive, but Iwanaga Wang did the opposite, and said to the staff officers beside him: "Ota Zhenchangjun 58th Soldier Brigade 団が, Chinese Garrison Position の攻撃を開始し, 3rd Mountain Artillery Soldier Company が作戦に協力している." Major General Shima Genyoshi が第歩兵旅団が攻める中国garrisonの陣地をCommand 揮して、予備军に移譲し、Command the troops が引き続き攻撃し続ける!" (The 58th Infantry Brigade of Ota Sada-kun was ordered to continue the offensive against the positions of the Chinese defenders, with the 3rd Mountain Artillery Wing assisting in the operation.) Order Major General Shima Genkichi to command the 57th Infantry Brigade to hand over the captured Chinese defenders' positions to the reserve troops, and command the troops to continue the attack! ）

"師団長阁下,あなたはまだ命令がありますか?" (Your Excellency, Division Commander, do you still have orders?) When the staff officer heard Iwanaga's words, he was stunned for a moment, then immediately recorded, and waited until he stopped talking before asking as usual.

"他の命令があって,私はあなたに伝えます、今,あなたはすぐに,すぐに彼らの2つの所に命じます!" (There are other orders, and I will tell you, now, give them at once, immediately, to the two of them!) Iwanaga's words were roared violently, as if someone had stepped on his tail.

The staff officer was so frightened by this roar that he trembled a few times, like a frightened antelope, he didn't understand what he had made a mistake, but he didn't dare to ask any more questions, just bowed a few times in a row, answered a few "hi" in his mouth, and retreated out of the command post.

Only this frightened staff officer didn't understand Iwanaga Wang's thoughts, and the others could see it clearly and clearly. The order he just gave was only given to the two brigades of the 68th Division, while his own 116th Division did not have half of the combat mission. The staff officer's greetings were heard by Iwanaga Wang as a question, which didn't make him angry, and he didn't get rewarded with two ear braces, which was considered good luck for this staff officer.

On the position of the 28th Regiment of the 10th Division, there were painful wails everywhere, some were injured by shell fragments and bullets, but more were injured by poison gas, veterans and officers were relatively few, those recruits who couldn't stand the cotton towel to cover their mouth and nose, and secretly opened it with a fluke mentality were really guilty, the entire respiratory tract, from the mouth and nose to the trachea, bronchi and lungs were burning pain, they might be better if they didn't scream, just imagine that even breathing is not as painful as death, what will happen if they scream loudly. Although the sanitary soldiers kept feeding them water, the pain of being burned by the poisonous gas did not eliminate the pain of their internal organs, and some of the recruits really could not bear the pain, and committed suicide by drinking bullets while the sanitary soldiers were not paying attention, and there were also a few wounded soldiers who felt helpless and secretly cut their throats with bayonets. People are like this, obviously there is no hope, they still want to take chances, the result is visible, if they resolutely endure the suffocation caused by wet cotton towels at that time, then they will never suffer a pain that is worse than death, and they will never give up their lives.

Zeng Jing sat paralyzed in a corner of the trench, and the two battalion commanders also sat near him.

The gas damage suffered by the three of them was not as deep as that of the soldiers who committed suicide, but it was slightly deeper than that of most of the soldiers and officers. But instead of letting the medics treat them because they were officers, they drove them to the screaming and wailing soldiers, and as for themselves, they sat in the muddy trenches and gasped for breath, letting the rain drench them.

The 28th regiment, including Zeng Jing, will not think that the devils will attack again, this is the normal thinking of people, just imagine, the defender positions that have not been captured in the poisonous fog in the sky, will there be the possibility of being captured in the majestic rain!

Although he only ordered the troops of the 68th Division to attack, not his own 116th Division, he was still very concerned about the results of the battle.

"The devil is coming up again?"

A shout from the observation post shocked the position of the 28th Regiment, which was busy even in heavy rain, Zeng Jing was pricked in the ass by a needle, and he bounced up from the muddy water at once, shouting loudly: "Return to your own position, and the lightly wounded will assist the medical staff to send the seriously wounded off the position!" ”

Zhang Xiaohu was considered to have fought more battles with the Japanese army, and he also thought that under such a heavy rain, it was impossible for the devils to launch an offensive, and even if the devils would attack, they would have to launch an artillery attack first. But I never expected that the devil would launch a sudden attack without the assistance of artillery fire and in such a heavy rain, first there were gunshots from the Dongcheng side, followed by the main position of his troops, and the front line of the mountain was also fiercely engaged.

At this time, Zhang Xiaohu's ingenious cliff position played a miraculous effect, attacking the Japanese troops in the direction of the Stopping Soldier Mountain, and when they saw a cliff, they thought it was a mining area, but when they entered the firing range, they were swept down by the Makqin machine gun that suddenly sounded, only to find that this was the position of the Chinese defenders.

Although the military quality of these devil soldiers is not as good as that of the group of devil soldiers when they first invaded China, they have still undergone several months of infantry drill training and participated in many battles with the Chinese army.

After being suddenly "sneak attacked", they only retreated a few hundred meters, quickly stabilized their position, and then set up mortars and grenadiers to bombard the defenders of the 115th Regiment on the cliff.

Zhang Xiaohu's 20th Division can be regarded as Sun Yumin's foundation, the weapons and equipment are naturally not bad, the devil has mortars, and the 115th Regiment is also equipped with a lot, but they have no intention of using it, according to Zhang Xiaohu's words, good steel must be used on a sharp blade, and the artillery regiment of the 20th Division did not shoot a single shell to retaliate when the defenders were shelled so fiercely, and these small grenadiers and mortars could not stand it? Of course not! Allowing the devil troops to frantically throw grenades at their positions from outside the range of machine guns, the 115th Regiment's position was as if it was dead, and there was no appearance of counterattack. This made the commander of the 57th Brigade, Shima Genkichi, who commanded the attack, make a fatal miscalculation: the defenders, except for machine guns, did not suppress the heavy fire of their own troops' mortars and grenadiers.

With this judgment in mind, Shima Genkichi came up with the idea of using the superior firepower of mortars and grenadiers to suppress the machine-gun fire of the Chinese army, and then the infantry launched a charge to capture the defenders' positions that had been cut into cliffs in one fell swoop.

The torrential rain slowly became lighter, and it seemed to stop immediately, and the attacking Japanese army, under the guidance of Shima Genyoshi's "correct tactics", relied on mortars and grenadiers to suppress non-stop fire, and advanced several hundred meters, just as he thought, in addition to rifle shooting, the Chinese army occasionally had one or two light machine guns fired, and they were all "named" by the bombardment of the "Imperial Army".

Shima Genji smiled, when he received Iwanaga Wang's order at first, he was still very angry, because he could see that the lieutenant general of the 116th Division was the commander of the 116th Division, and he wanted the troops of the 68th Division to gnaw hard bones, and his 116th Division was picking up meat to eat in the back. Now it seems that the commander of the Iwanaga Division had the intention to let the 68th Division make several contributions, so as to offset the shame of being "beheaded" twice in a row.

Shima Genkichi was thinking about whether to find an opportunity to apologize and thank him after the war, when suddenly the battlefield changed dramatically.

The machine-gun position suppressed by the mortars and grenadiers was dumb, but the small hill next door, which had also been cut into a cliff, suddenly burst into fierce fire, and suddenly, the attacking troops, which were already very close to the two hills, were attacked by a rain of bullets.

Shima Genkichi gasped, he could clearly see through the binoculars that countless Imperial soldiers had been beaten into hornet's nests by the bullets of the Chinese army, and that it was a heavy machine-gun position on the cliff next to him that had killed his men.

It was only now that he finally understood that on these two cliff positions, each had a heavy machine gun position that was a horn of each other, and if he wanted to completely suppress these two heavy machine gun positions, it was completely not enough to rely on the mortars and grenadiers of the 115th Brigade alone!

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